[23469] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Toast Song Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel)
Sun Jan 19 14:48:13 2003
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:48:08 -0800
Reply-To: Rachel <iceangel99@yahoo.com>
From: Rachel <iceangel99@yahoo.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <005101c2bfd3$d8c10bd0$27fbaf80@famtree>
note the sarcasm in my previous idea...i was just
trying to be funny (as usual)...sorry if you
misinterpereted that....
Rachel
--- Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu> wrote:
> A toast can occur without alcohol (although not as
> classy unless with
> sparkling cider)- we must consider legalities,
> national policy, and
> responsibility here. Would a frivoulous motion
> really be passed to be real
> policy?
>
> Michael Gallagher
> Zeta Sigma
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rachel" <iceangel99@yahoo.com>
> To: <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 6:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [APO-L] Toast Song Issues
>
>
> > This is kind of funny considering that at
> convention,
> > i was going to frivoulously motion to either
> change
> > the name of the toast song since a) it has nothing
> to
> > do with the bread form of toast and b) we do not
> > currently perform a toast...therefore the name
> either
> > needs to be changed or a toast as with an
> alcoholic
> > beverage should be incorporated to the toast song
> > (hmm...singing of the toast song at Jackson
> square,
> > midnight, new years eve comes to mind here....lol)
> and
> > keep in mind that not every chapter does the toast
> > song exactly the same...mine, for example, does
> the
> > whole song with arms crossed and does not start
> with
> > arms behind each others backs and has another
> verse
> > that not every chapter does (this is also common).
> > Some also have different traditions for the very
> end
> > of the song. Even though it's essentially the
> same
> > song, I think it keeps chapters unique. ...maybe
> > because we're too uncoordinated to do it the other
> > way...
> > :) have a great weekend!
> > In brotha-hood
> > Rachel Kuhn
> > zeta delta
> >
> >
> > --- Buddha Buck <bmbuck@14850.com> wrote:
> > > Philip Harvey wrote:
> > > > hrm.. what would we do for the third verse?
> For
> > > the he first verse,
> > > > we've got our arms on each others shoulders
> like a
> > > big group hug, then
> > > > it's right over left, hand in hand... what do
> we
> > > do for the 3rd verse
> > > > though? just hand in hand, no right over
> left,
> > > and do a wave sort of
> > > > thing, starting with the president? hrm,
> maybe
> > > not... we can't even
> > > > sway in time with eachother...
> > >
> > > Well....
> > >
> > > I sort of think we're doing the wrong thing for
> the
> > > first verse... This
> > > is a Toast song, and it begins as a Toast:
> "Here's
> > > to Alpha Phi Omega",
> > > yet we do nothing resembling toasting during it.
> > >
> > > I grant you that standing, left hands at our
> sides,
> > > right hands extended
> > > before us at eye level, holding an imaginary
> glass
> > > would probably
> > > present the wrong image (visualize it, folks).
> But
> > > I could see, at the
> > > beginning (or end) of a banquet, everyone
> singing
> > > the first verse
> > > together, glasses raised in a toast.
> > >
> > > The second verse begins with "Brothers Clasp the
> > > hands of Brothers" and
> > > that's what we do. No problem there.
> > >
> > > What action is suggested by the third verse
> > > presented below? Hmmm....
> > > Singing... but we are already doing that -- and
> the
> > > second verse also
> > > has the subtle voice-raising in the second half.
> > > Praising? Growing?
> > > Joining? How do you symbolically do these
> things?
> > >
> > > Perhaps...
> > >
> > > Link our arms both men and women, Brothers
> all
> > > are we.
> > > Hears as one we praise together, Our
> diversity.
> > > Ever growing, ever learning, so that we may
> be
> > > Joined in Alpha Phi Omega For Eternity
> > >
> > > That gives us a direct action to follow,
> stresses
> > > the diversity and
> > > bi-gendered nature of the Fraternity. I'm not
> sure
> > > I like it though.
> > > There's something about the 2nd line that
> doesn't
> > > work for me.
> >
> >
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